Category: podcasting
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Podcast39: The Vocabulary of 21st Century Learning
Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going with respect to teaching and learning in classrooms across the United States in the 21st Century? Do we want to just use technology to do traditional education more efficiently, or do we want to do education differently and better? In this presentation…
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Podcast37: Effective School Podcasting
This presentation at Education Service Center 10 in Richardson, Texas, today addressed different examples of K-12 educational podcasts, what RSS is, and resources for creating podcasts. We also discussed selling podcasts to other teachers and administrators as digital storytelling: a tool for helping motivate students to write and communicate better for an authentic audience. The…
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A Million Voices for Darfur
A Million Voices for Darfur is a website that enables you and your students to directly communicate with President Bush and urge him to take action on behalf of the United States to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Enter your name and email address, and add an additional personal message.…
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Podcast River Aggregators
Several web 2.0 tools are available which can aggregate content from different podcast RSS feeds together into a single “podcast feed river.” I don’t know of that is a recognized term or not, but I think it communicates the idea well. Think of separate podcasts as smaller streams which feed into a larger river. Students…
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Podcasting: “Stream On” – Global Distributed Learning
I will be participating as a panelist in a roundtable discussion about podcasting in higher education contexts on March 1, 2006 at Texas Tech University. The title of the roundtable is “Podcasting: ‘Stream On’ – Global Distributed Learning.” We will be podcasting this event on the TTU College of Education podcast channel. Dr. David Miller,…
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Complexity of Problem Solving
Most people would agree that problem solving is an essential 21st century literacy skill, I think. Dr. David Jonassen spoke at the Texas Tech College of Education last week on the topic of problem solving, and specifically presented on the subject, “Designing Learning Environments for Troubleshooting.” His presentation is available as a podcast, and is…
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John Brown and Abolitionists
The Talking of History podcast from October 16th, 2005 about John Brown (linked from the 2005 archive page) provides background information about the life of John Brown, his work supporting the underground railroad, and the era of “bloody Kansas” preceding the start of the US Civil War. David Reynolds, author of the recent book “John…
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TCEA 2006 Podcast Roundup
Miguel Guhlin has posted a great list of podcast links from last week’s Texas Computer Education Association’s annual conference. I still have 2 more podcast recordings I need to share: the closing keynote session by Rafe Esquith and his amazing 5th grade students, and Marc Prensky’s presentation from Thursday morning. I’m hoping to have both…
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Need Garageband export to archive.org
Someone needs to write a plugin for Garageband3 that lets you publish audio directly to the Internet Archive with a Creative Commons license, similar to FlickrExport for iPhoto. This would be a new command: Share to the Internet Archive. Basically, someone needs to intergrate ccPublisher into Garageband3. Or at least make ccPublisher work with exported…
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m4a enhanced podcast problem solved
Learning new technology techniques can be a real pain and result in a lot of wasted time! But it also can result in figuring something new out, and gaining more expertise as well as troubleshooting skills, so those are good outcomes. After floundering around for quite a while this evening, I finally resolved an issue…